Victoria County History

Townships Rixton with Glazebrook RIXTON WITH GLAZEBROOK Rixton , 1212 and commonly; Rickeston , 1259. Glazebrok, 1259, 1302, & c.; Glaseborke, 1292; Glazebrook , 1389. This township 1 is the most easterly one of the hundred. It lies along the

Rixton gave his lands in Byrom to Henry son of Richard de Glazebrook . In 1303 a marriage was agreed upon between Henry son of Henry de Glazebrook and Isabel daughter of Alan de Rixton ; Kuerden, fol. MS. 364;

the north, west, and east and uniting a little to the south of Bedford Hall to form the water of Glazebrook , which on its southward course forms for some little distance the south-western boundary of the township. From this

all of the southern boundary is formed by a brook running through Hindley , and called successively Eye Brook and Glazebrook ; by it Bamfurlong , 2 in the extreme west, is cut off from the main portion of th

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of wood, 40 a . of furze and heath, and 100 a . of moss and turbary in Glassebroke [ Glazebrook ] and Rixton, and also of the chantry of Hollynfayre, in the parish of Weryngton. Thomas remitted all right

of pasture, and 10 s . of rent in Pulton [ Poulton with Fearnhead ] , Fernehedd, and Glasebroke [ Glazebrook ] . The deforciants acknowledged the said tenements to be the right of Henry, for which the plaintiffs granted

his familY, and thereby P causing them to beceeno chargcablo to the Aston Board of ing (Guardians, . D)ANGEnous AnR1tCL1,q.-Edsvin Glazebrook (10), and time William Island, residing in Gladstono Street, were charged, weh in .ompany with Arthur Watkins (11). Zstanor

Oldbury, and the debtor in the action out of which the proceedings arose was George Glazebrook, also of Oldbury. In March of this year Glazebrook was in difficulties, and his landlord dis- 3 trained for rent. Gla7,ebrook then saw the

went in free. He was at the Southern meeting, and sat on the platform. A gentleman said to him-" Now, Glazebrook , thou's no right there." (Laughter.) His reply was-" Thou dar' not fetch me off." (Renewed laughter.) The Northern

at either end, a direct and independent route between Liverpool and Manchester , and, by means of a branch from Glazebrook to Timperley , an alternative route from Liverpool to Sheffield and places beyond. A scheme so conceived could not

however, the completion of the lines was found absolutely necessary, and their construction was vigorously pressed forward. The portions between Glazebrook aud Cornbrook , and between Timpeiiey and Garston , were opened in August, 1873 , and the Liverpool Central